Swans Take Off Like The Concorde,

Parliament

, 2025

For his second solo exhibition at Parliament, Aceto has chosen to present, for the first time, only photographs. The decision marks both a lateral step and a revelation of a facet of his oeuvre that has largely remained under the radar. The images of Aceto have been subjected to liminal manipulation through Photoshop. These are, in essence, deliberately archaic images that bring editing software back into the realm of manual labor and bricolage, opposing the pursuit of perfection that such tools typically embody. The photographs are rife with imprecisions, “bugs in the matrix,” and glitches, celebrating a kind of technological failure reminiscent of an American current—a post-Pictures Generation?—to which we can link artists such as Cheyney Thompson, Leslie Hewitt, and Wade Guyton.